Video emerges showing Moscow nanny carrying four-year-old's severed head, before arrest by police

The television network REN TV has published horrifying surveillance camera footage of police outside the Moscow metro's Oktyabrskoe Pole station detaining a woman carrying a four-year-old child's severed head.

According to REN TV, the woman was threatening to blow herself up. According to reports by the news agency RBC, the woman was yelling “Allah akbar!” before she was detained. The news agency TASS says the woman worked as a nanny in the city. 

The newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets reports that the woman has been identified as 38-year-old Gyulchekhra Bobkulova, a native of Uzbekistan.

The footage, obtained from surveillance cameras, shows how a police officer runs up to the criminal. He tackles her to the ground, and at this moment more police officers approach. The woman was then detained.

The same morning, on Monday, February 29, there was a fire reported at an apartment in Moscow. After the fire, the charred remains of a headless child were discovered.